Re: Scrotwm / Spectrwm

Re: Scrotwm / Spectrwm

Hello.

I installed spectrwm on my netbook using the wiki; i.e., I followed the wiki for adding spectrwm to slim, copying spectrwm.conf to ~/, editing .conf so that bar action and bar delay were enabled, and set up conky using the supplied config. The only other edit I made was to set lxterminal for the terminal program. It works well and I'm happy with it.

Then I did the same things on my desktop. It doesn't work - at least not immediately. After logging into spectrwm from slim, feh sets the background image (done in .xinitrc same as on my netbook) and the status bar appears along the top. After a 5 second delay, conky pipes info into the status bar. The keyboard seems frozen. But if I press the power button on my tower, the keyboard becomes unfrozen.

I've tried:1. Removing "dbus-launch" in my .xinitrc2. Editing conky down to only displaying uptime3. Commenting out the bar_action and bar_delay lines in spectrwm.conf so conky isn't used at all

Re: Scrotwm / Spectrwm

Try going back to the original spectrwm.conf (just rename your ~/.spectrwm.conf to .spectrwm.bak). Spectrwm does strange things if there are any syntax errors in spectrwm.conf -- it doesn't report errors, it just doesn't work. If it works after you do this, you have a syntax error somewhere in spectrwm.conf (probably around where you changed the terminal).

Re: Scrotwm / Spectrwm

1.2.0 is out! Here are the release notes:

This is a BETA release which will turn into 2.0.0 in a few weeks. It completely rewrites the entire window manager to switch from Xlib to xcb, resulting in a much snappier experience. The configuration file is 100% backwards-compatible and now supports Xft fonts in bar_font. This release also fixes a couple of long-standing minor issues.

Re: Scrotwm / Spectrwm

okay, so it wasn't the autostart function in spectrwm that broke, it is just when I try to autostart firefox maybe other browsers. Again what it does is just kick me back out to slim. This also occurs if I try to call firefox via xchat (open link in browser) I will research a little tonight and submit a bug if it is something to do with spectrwm I haven't looked at any error messages yet I'm doing that now.

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Re: Scrotwm / Spectrwm

So the big 2.0.0 release happened. Unfortunately it seems to segfault on startup every time. Even with a stock config. This is slightly disappointing, as 1.2.0 was supposed to be the unstable beta and 2.0.0 the solid release.

Re: Scrotwm / Spectrwm

keenerd wrote:

So the big 2.0.0 release happened. Unfortunately it seems to segfault on startup every time. Even with a stock config. This is slightly disappointing, as 1.2.0 was supposed to be the unstable beta and 2.0.0 the solid release.

Has anyone gotten 2.0.0 to run?

Not tried yet, I'll see if I can later this weekend or early next week. Need to use my second machine that's elsewhere to do that.

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Does this happen when you click the dialog's "close" button or when you use spectrwm's M-x to kill the window? I've found some programs to be inter-dependent with their windows, and M-x'ing them kills the whole application.

Re: Scrotwm / Spectrwm

Hi, I've been trying out spectrwm for a bit now, and coming from awesome I find myself lacking some functionality.

In awesome I would use one of two set layouts and that let me switch the positions of the clients and change the size of the windows and they would all change with each other. In spectrwm all layouts seem to want to move the clients around freely whenever I try to alter the layout. Am I expecting functionality that spectrwm just doesn't have or are there other layouts that I have not come upon?I am basically not ever interested in having things float (except maybe mplayer but there are always quirks for individual programs).